At the end of 2017 we started a renovation & extension project working on a semi detached house in Hove which involved a good sized extension to the rear of the property, opening up the back of the house into a large open plan space for entertaining, cooking and enjoying the garden. This project involved building the extension (and rebuilding …
Project update week 13
So very quickly we have moved into week 13 and the finishing touches are all happening. We have had several issues with Internet suppliers of bathrooms, tiles etc… Delivery companies dropping pallets etc. which have put all our schedules out. (Special mention for www.traderadiators.co.uk, www.wallsandfloors.co.uk who despite causing lots of grief through their delivery companies managed to eventually sort things …
Project Week 4 – update VI
So the weekend has come around again, and this is my chance to update this blog and let you know where we have got to so far. At last we begin to actually make things this week (rather than just demolishing them!) 😆 We have lifted the floor as you all know and we have found a really neat product …
Project update V
So – the job is already into its fourth week – how time flies… So – it is quite exciting at this time in any project, lots of very apparent and significant work is obvious for all to see, walls removed, floors taken up, the skeleton of the house visible for everyone to see. At this point in any build …
Project update – part IV
So – this is a very brief post, but I wanted to share this little video as one of our clients came and visited us on site yesterday as was a little taken aback that this had already been done. It was a little noisy first thing on a Monday so we waited till a little later in the morning …
Eco-renovation is not always easy – week 6
As Fran rightly predicted 2 weeks ago – things are getting pretty hairy… with a deadline looming and still alot to do, things have been moving along at lightning pace but there is only a certain number of hours in every day!!There was even a little additional weekend working happening to get things moved forward so that we could hit …
Kemp Town Week 5
Well – as predicted things are getting hairy – but we have made terrific progress this week – we have begun the preparations of the dining room ceiling ready for the delivery of the conservation roof light from The Rooflight Company. We did have a small hiccup when we discovered that the new ridge beam and cross ties that the …
Kemp Town eco-renovation
So, continuing the theme of insulation as discussed last week – we have been using this week to insulate the exterior walls of the property – with 2 cross battened layers of Celotex (www.celotex.co.uk) thereby reducing cold bridging. (cold bridging is mostly succinctly described on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_bridging) This insulation has been completed around the first floor, including behind the …
Week 2 part 2
Fran, Simon, Nick and I discussed the floor situation – and the location for the new wetroom door So, a couple of interesting little quirks we have discovered. First, and most pressing is that the groundfloor is not actually a suspended timber floor, but instead it is a floating floor on a concrete slab. with 45mm of polystyrene acting as …